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School bus stops at liquor store
By The Associated Press – 01/09/09
BILLINGS (AP) — A school bus driver who stopped at a liquor store while on her morning route in mid-December allegedly asked a middle school student to hide her purchase before police boarded the bus, district superintendent Jack Copps said.
Copps said someone spotted the bus at the liquor store on Dec. 12 and called authorities. No students were on the bus at the time, he said.
By the time officers caught up with the bus, the driver had picked up some middle school students and allegedly asked one student to hide a paper bag with bottles of alcohol near the back of the bus, Copps said.
‘‘You can’t make things like this up,’’ Copps said. ‘‘If we were trying to think of something that could be one of the strangest things that could possibly happen in the school district, this is it.’’
Copps said it does not appear the driver had been drinking. The incident is still being investigated and no charges had been filed Wednesday.
Copps said the school immediately notified its bus contractor, First Student, that the woman was not to transport any of the district’s students. She quit her job earlier this week.
